Simon McCartney was a young alpinist climbing the hardest routes in the Alps, but a chance meeting with Californian Jack Roberts dramatically changed both their lives. They risked everything to make the first ascents in Alaska. The Bond is their story.

The Sacred Combe takes a broken man out of his City life to tackle the unlikely task of combing a vast, venerable library in a country pile for a lost letter, amidst a collection of striking characters each lost too.

On the anniversary of his friend Byrd’s death on the mountain which had been the boys' paradise, Wolf Truly reaches for the summit again, not planning to come home. But he meets three women who change his story for ever.

Imagination, range, intelligence - you could take these as the defining qualities of this book. And there’s more. There’s a prose style and rhythm that’s lucid, pliant, natural, versatile, exact, evocative, distinguished by an understated lyricism, and matched time and again to that breath-taking breadth of material.

This inspiring adventure describes hospital chaplain Walter Glover’s trek to Everest Base Camp and Mount Kilimanjaro after training in the flat terrain of Indiana. His trips raised $130,000 to fight childhood obesity. The book also tells of Glover’s spiritual journey.  

There is something deeply primitive in mankind that fires the urge to explore, to search for the unknown whether it is beyond an horizon, over an ocean or, maybe, up a mountain. This desire, which includes rock faces, was possibly driven out of the necessity to search for food or minerals but, as modern society changed, so did the motive and-rock climbing came into being as a recreation using just body-strength and willpower.

Rich with vivid personal stories of lumber tycoons, loggers, volcanologists, and conservationists, Eruption delivers a spellbinding narrative built from the testimonies of those closest to the disaster, and an epic tale of our fraught relationship with the natural world.

A magnificent, deeply researched history, Continental Divide tells a story of adventure and aspiration in the high peaks that makes a vivid case for the importance of mountains to American national identity.

In the 1930's, a promising young alpinist from Munich struggles to stay above the fray and the base instincts of the valley that threaten to destroy all that he knows, and remain in that higher, more peaceful Reich of the high Alps.

In Wild Country, Mark Vallance traces his story, from childhood influences like Robin Hodgkin and Sir Jack Longland, to two years in Antarctica, before his fateful meeting with Ray Jardine, the man who invented Friends, in Yosemite.

Outwardly, 'Britain's most experienced teenage Alpinist' is a brave young mountaineer. But he's not experienced at all; at least not in the way he really wants to be. He seeks manhood in the mountains, yet he believes he will only truly gain it by losing something.

Glen Denny’s photographs taken in Yosemite in the 1950s and ’60s are known around the world. Now, his true tales of colorful characters and a legendary locale, brotherhood and sky-high quests, make the Golden Age of rock climbing come alive.

A Step Too Far is Tim Hurrell’s personal record of the 1982 Kuksar Expedition in which he and Steve Brodrick reached the 6493m summit - the first and still, to date, the only mountaineers to do so.

Memoirs from a life of extremes; the underclass of the city, life forged through poverty, violence and drugs.  A connection through rock and ice to a new life; the life of a climber, simple in need, rich in experience.

A detailed study of the dawning of mountaineering in Scotland, leading up to WW1. The first comprehensive record of this legendary era, which saw standards of climbing unsurpassed until the 1940s. Contemporary illustrations.

Mons Graupius mixes beautiful prose, a spitfire snob of a female protagonist, and the adventure of mountaineering—all set in the summits of Scotland.

Take a group of mountaineers with ropes and improvised stretcher. Add 50 years of invention, professional purpose and ingenuity of 24/7/365 volunteers. You get the commitment, humour, tribulations and adventures of the people of OVMRO. What could possibly go wrong?

The autobiography of the only British climber and adventurer to have conquered Everest twelve times and the greatest high-altitude mountaineer of a generation, Kenton Cool.

In English at last Catherine’s story shows why she took the climbing world by storm. The first woman to solo Eiger's north face, she climbedin winter in 17 hours. Climbs include Bonatti Route on north face of Matterhorn and southwest pillar of Aiguille du Dru.

The engrossing story of the seasons the author spent climbing 4000m mountains in the Alps.  The words and photos encapsulate the alpine experience in all its beauty, in the pain and exhilaration, danger and humour shared with each climbing partner.